jasonc wrote:am probably going to get reamed for this, but this posted in the bike gallery thread

It may not be to your taste, nor mine, but this scoot is the pride & joy of a new member here. Besides you could have linked to pretty much any Kestral triathalon bike to make the point.

Beside like Mulger Bill said, ugly but fast is the core design parameter for ALL TT bikes.

absolutely. But this thread is about Ugly bikes. I see that and thought of this thread instantly. If you wish me to remove/modify my post, I will.

Ah yep that would be my ride haha. Its a forum and your more than welcome to comment. As they always say not everything will be everyones taste, and the great thing about that is that everyone rides around in different bikes and it keeps some variety.

Its a fantastic bike and find_bruce was right, it is my pride and joy but I know it was nothing against me, it was just that you had different personal preferences

I dunno, I think many of these so-called ugly bikes are just plain groovy. The super high-speed jobbies with the multiple giant cranks are just plain fascinating.THe small wheels are intruiging too. Instinctively, we think small wheels are slow, yet here is a bloke doing half the speed of sound on them.How is that not just plain cool ??I guess that it's just more that middle aged blokes are so freaking conservative. I'm going to look at hipster bikes today, to cleanse my senses of the oppression.

greyhoundtom wrote:I’m still trying to work out how they fitted the chain cover on the damn thing..........definitely a pain when it comes to cleaning and oiling the chain.

Got one on the way for my Rohloff chain drive - a Hebie Chainglider. The idea of a chaincase is to keep all the junk off your chain, so the ongoing need to clean and replace lubricant is very much reduced.

"Square wheel seems like a contradiction in terms, but this bicycle rides more smoothly than you might think. The secret is the shape of the road over which the wheels roll. The wheels can keep the bike moving in a straight line and at a constant velocity as long as it’s traveling over evenly spaced bumps of just the right shape, called an ‘inverted catenary’."